Michael Korenblit, a defendant in the second Leningrad hijack trial, has not been released from imprisonment as was erroneously reported yesterday. Jewish sources in the Soviet Union said today that Korenblit who was sentenced to seven years in a strict regime labor camp remains incarcerated. Two of his co-defendants. Lev Korenblit and Shlomo Dresner, who received three-year sentences were released, as reported yesterday, and are now said to be seeking exit visas to go to Israel.
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